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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Virulence \Vir"u*lence\, Virulency \Vir"u*len*cy\, n. [Cf. F.
virulence, L. virulentia an offensive odor, a stench.]
1. The quality or state of being virulent or venomous;
poisonousness; malignancy.
2. Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition. ``Refuted
without satirical virulency.'' --Barrow.
The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities
and sublimities of the other --I. Taylor.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
virulence
n 1: extreme harmfulness; "the virulence of the plague"
2: extreme hostility; "the virulence of the malicious old man"
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